The sun is warm on her face in the cooler air, light penetrating her closed eyelids, turning them incandescent orange. The smells of autumn: decaying leaves, rich earth. Her books make a surprisingly comfortable pillow, lying on the grass on the small quad. Bit of heaven.
A shadow falls across her. She cracks one eye open.
“Brittany,” she says flatly.
“Jane, that calculus is killing me. I need help.”
Jane closes her eye again and points behind her, somewhere. “Math lab’s that way.”
“You’re not doing anything.”
The eye again, a bullet. “Looks may deceive. I am very busy.”
Every week at the Ranch (Carrot Ranch Literary Community, that is), Charli Mills hosts a flash fiction challenge. This week’s prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a busy character.
99 Monkeys 
I think your character has reached that perfect place where she can say no. Love the autumn colours.
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Thanks! Yes, “no” can be such a valuable word!
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Yes. Just wish I could say No more often.
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What a great scene that pulls us right in and makes us feel protective of Jane’s choice of busy. Love this line: “The eye again, a bullet.”
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Thank you!
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